When I think of using personal items such as video games in school I think
that they wouldn’t be approved for the most part. I would probably recommend
games that I thought were educational, but for the most part I’d let the kids
decide to play them of their own accord. For instance I find that most Sid
Meier games (Civilization, Spore, etc.) are very educational, but they are
also time-consuming. I’d recommend them to kids and incorporate them by maybe
offering extra credit if they could write me a paper about some things they
learned from the games. For YouTube I would use any video that I thought was
educational, reinforced a concept, or aided in my teaching. I think that
attempting to use social networking sites to help in teaching would be
frowned upon by the powers that be. Could they be helpful? Definitely, but
they’re usually blocked by school firewalls and then some parents don’t let
their kids use them. Cell Phones are frowned upon in school, not all kids
have them, and I don’t think the board of Education would be comfortable with
using cell phones in school, but it would definitely cool for a higher
education class. Blogs I would highly approve of. It would be an interactive
method for kids to write their opinions and thoughts on varying subjects.
When I think of personal technological use applied to education I think it
could help but it would be blocked by the political aspect of education.
Since getting things like video games, social network sites, and cell phone
use would probably never get approved we have an attitude of “why bother? “
When we think of educational technology we try to think of other things that
would satisfy the political aspect of education and facilitate learning.
This, I think, causes the disconnect when thinking about the application of
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Yeah um sorry about how that looks. I've no idea what caused it.
I agree. There are many people that have to agree before anything new enters the classroom.
yes, everything you have in the classroom has to be approve, i agree with you there. But how can you give a student extra credit on a video game when most likely most if not all do not have that game at home and some may not even have access to playing any sort of game outside of school. Also, blogger is agreat way for the students to interact with one another and the teacher but i think that should be used like ours in but only in some ways. When you have younger students they need to work on their gramer and puncuation so that would have to be a graded part so in the future they can be excellent writers
They need to work on their spelling too.
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